I would like to kow if is possible how to use pplive or sopcast program in linux for vide. I am searching for that answer for very long time but i can't find it._________________Spletno narocanje hrane in dostava hrane na dom na portalu DostavaHrane.si

EDIT: Just to make something clear: The wine workaround seems to be the only one really working right now. I was able to watch with sp-sc (the back-end of gtk-sopcast / qt-sopcast / sopgui) until some weeks ago, but things have changed since then (and getting a current channel-list is not the only problem).
Also, other versions of sopcast (before 0.9.6) did not work with wine.
But anyway, as long as it works now...

DISCLAIMER: The following procedure may be illegal in your country. This is purely for educational reasons. I am not responsible for any wroing-doing on your side. Please play by the rules and pay for programs you like.

I am happy to report a workaround. Took me two weeks to search for all the relevant info and lots of trial and error, but seems this is a stable solution:

1. Get the latest Windoze Version of Sopcast (0.9.6) from http://www.sopcast.org and unzip it
2. emerge wine (I have o.9.8-r1; for a how-to-setup-wine looks elsewhere [gentoo-wiki.org]
3. wine Setup-SopCast-0.9.6.exe
4. Login as Anonymous (or otherwise if you have an account with sopcast.org)
5. Double-click your favourite channel
6. Fire up mplayer/xine (or any other player capable of showing a wmv stream) like this: xine http://localhost:8902
7. Be Patient (it can take quite a time to connect and buffer the stream before it starts)

After the initial installation of Sopcast with wine, you can start it by:
wine /PATH/TO/SopCast.exe
i.e.
wine $HOME/.wine/fake_windows/Program\ Files/SopCast/SopCast.exe

The shots has been taken (as you can see in the first one) while 1519 ppl. were streaming CCTV-5. As SopCast is a p2p-application, quality depends on the number of people streaming (uploading) a certain channel. With CCTV-5, this is usally very good, even in fullscreen mode. Not HDTV really, but since I don't have a TV (and probably never will regarding the decline in quality on German TV), this is as good as it gets.
screenshot of the video in fullscreen-mode looks a lot worse than when actually watching the stream, so i decided not to post one. It is definitely "watchable" in fullscreen, but decide for yourselves.

BTW: Though i am in Germany right now, and everybody is totally freaking out, I have to admit, I am not interested in football/soccer at all. And all this honking of the morons driving by my house after ANY match has ended really drives me nuts...

Honestly: I don't know what's wrong, the output you posted looks fine to me, until it dies suddenly.
The error "broker connection closed retv=-13" pops up once in a while here, too. But it causes no problems here.

Actually "broker connection closed" is what you see if you try to use sp-sc these days. Worked like a charme until some weeks ago.

Maybe, it's just their servers. When I was trying stuff out over the last days, their service (broker, website) was often horribly slow or just not available. I suggest you try again in a couple of hours (if you have not already done so).
And, most important: try other channels (start with cctv-5 as that seems to be very reliable), because not all channels work. I have no clue why, as far as I know they all use the same streaming/format.

Below, you can see the output of what I get here. I cut it into three parts to make orientation a bit easier.

I just came home from a trip over the weekend and had time to check out the new sp-sc, which works great btw..

But, I am having trouble making sopgui behave itself:
The problem is, that after some minutes watching a stream, sopgui - for whatever reason - fires up another one, two or three xine/mplayer windows within a couple of seconds. All of those windows show the stream with little lag, so I hear an ugly echo effect (plus rising system load with every new instance of xine/mplayer). If I close all but one windows, it will take some time and do the same thing.

I found an workaround to the above problem, so in case anybody has the same problem...

If I fill in mplayer/xine to be my desired player (in sopgui config), the above described problem is the result.
If I enter nonsense (i.e. kaffeine, which is not installed on my box), but then open up xine/mplayer/whatever from a shell, all is fine.
Leaving the field for "Player" empty gives an error btw.

But, nevertheless: If somebody knows how to solve the underlying problem, so that the player can be started from within sopgui, that would be very nice._________________---
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The sopcast-bin ebuild is pretty much the "complex" one given here by Dottout, except for the license which I haven't been able to figure out, and for the renamed files within the v1.0.2 tgz. Anyway, as far as I can tell, its license cannot be GNU GPL since there is no source being distributed.

Maybe the ebuilds work for someone else, too? Maybe the gsopcast-svn ebuild could be attached to that bug as well?

QMake has two modes, one mode for generating project files based on
some heuristics, and the other for generating makefiles. Normally you
shouldn't need to specify a mode, as makefile generation is the default
mode for qmake, but you may use this to test qmake on an existing project

# All dependencies might not be listed, since the binary blob's homepage only lists libstdc++
RDEPEND=">=virtual/libstdc++-3.3"

DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"

src_unpack() {
ewarn "SopCast binary blob is distributed without version info in its package."
ewarn "Thus, in case this ebuild fails, you might want to remove your " $MY_SRC
ewarn "from /usr/portage/distfiles and check whether they have release a newer"
ewarn "version on their homepage at"
ewarn $HOMEPAGE

unpack ${A}
}

src_install() {
cd ${S}
dobin sp-sc-auth
# we need to make the above available for older stuff expecting to find it with the old name
dosym /usr/bin/sp-sc-auth /usr/bin/sp-sc
dobin sp-so-auth
dodoc Readme
}

I used the resources in this thread to get sopcast up and running. All of the active gui's seem to use the qt libraries so I didn't bother with a GUI. There wasn't much out there in the way of a how-to once it was installed so I thought I'd post it here to save any new users some time...

Once the sp-sc is ready in your /usr/bin all you need is a sop:// url. Connect to the stream using the following commands:

Code:

$ sp-sc [url] 3908 8908 >/dev/null &

This will return a processID. Next, open your favorite media viewer and open the following network stream: